Sunday, February 10, 2019

Updating Oracle Opatch with AWS Systems Manager Run Command at Scale

AWS Systems Manager (SSM) is a managed service by AWS, which is used to configure and manage EC2 instances, other AWS resources, and on-premise VMs/servers at scale. SSM frees you up from having ssh or bastion host access to the remote resources.


Pre-requisites of SSM:

The managed instances need to have SSM agent running.
The managed instances need to be assigned an IAM role with policy AmazonEC2RoleforSSM.
The managed insatnces need to have a meaningful tag assigned to them to make it possible to manage them in bulk.

Example:

This example assumes that above pre-requisites are already there. For step by step instructions as how to do that, check this resource (https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/remotely-run-commands-ec2-instance-systems-manager/). This also assumes that all the instances
have been assigned tags like Env=Prod or Env=Dev.

Following is the script update_opatch.sh which was already bootstrapped to the EC2 instance at time of creation in userdata,
so its already present at /u01/scripts/update_opatch.sh

#/usr/bin/env bash -x
ORACLE_SID=`ps -ef | grep pmon | grep -v asm | awk '{print $NF}' | sed s'/pmon_//' | egrep "^[+]"`
export ORAENV_ASK=NO
. oraenv > /dev/null 2>&1
mv $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch.$(date)
curl -T /tmp/ -u test@test.com ftps://
mv /tmp/p6880880_101000_linux64.zip $ORACLE_HOME
cd $ORACLE_HOME
unzip p6880880_101000_SOLARIS64.zip


Now just running following command in Systems Manager will update opatch on all the managed instances with tag Prod.

aws ssm send-command --document-name "AWS-RunShellScript" --comment "update_opatch.sh" --parameters commands=update_opatch.sh Key=tag:Env,Values=Prod


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